many of hus been thinking about this including general milley for quite some time ever since lafayette squareof 2020, we had been working certainly on the house arms services committee, a few of us to get general milley and secretary esper on record of what they would do and what they would not do if president trump, after the election attempted to stay in office. the president, former president telegraphed that to us since may of 2020, that if he didn't win it would be an illegitimate. so we worked hard to ask general milley questions on the record about how they would respond if they attempted to intervene in the election about not being allowed to have peaceful transition of power and before the gain of the president and not the national security interest of the united states. so we knew this last summer, and i'm just very glad that general milley and others were there to help prevent it. >> did you get reassurance that the military and other national security officials would protect and defend the united states against, say, a rogue commander in chief? >> um, i did. we wrote a letter to s

it also ends up coming after milley himself apologized for his role in that lafayette square appearance back in june during the george floyd protest across the country and in washington, d.c. but, hallie, as you and i have also talked about, too, new revelations from milley ended up coming after the election was decided after news networks called joe biden the winner. >> that's right. >> of course, milley was concerned that donald trump was continuing these false attacks on the validity of the election and those results and that's what concerned him. >> on the left side of your screen, so folks know, that is where we expect to hear from general milley. let be clear. we have no expectation that he's actually going to talk about the book, right? he's delivering remarks on something completely separate related to nato. however if there's an illusion to it, given the significance of the news this morning, we're there, watching it live. courtney you, i know, have been covering the pentagon through all of this, in the early trump years now through the biden years. how is it being perceived in

i think milley just got swept up in that affair in lafayette square. >> yeah. >> i think he really --ly brought things into focus very sharply for him after that. >> thank you, general. thank you, jamie. for your reporting on this book. listen, we didn't know how bad it was, and more will come out, i am sure. appreciate it, see you soon. >> sure. >> so the pentagon has worried about the then-president attempting a coup, right, but the threat to democracy is still happening right now with republican-led states openly -- openly restricting people's right to vote. here she is congresswoman sheila jackson lee is going to way in after this. but if you're a kid with diabetes, it's more. it's the simple act of enjoying time with friends, knowing you understand your glucose levels. ♪ it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ team usa is ready for the olympic games... ...and so is sharon! she got xfinity

and also with defense secretary mark esper because they regretted their participation in that lafayette square photo open. trump called milley out on it in a meeting in the oval office. donald trump just wasn't going to understand and milley just said that's the way it is, we're apolitical in the military, and i was in a uniform. >> susan, great reporting as usual. i don't see you often enough, so keep writing so we can keep bringing you back to discuss what you're talking about. thank you, susan glasser, i appreciate it. >>> i want to turn to former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. andrew, thank you for joining us, i don't get to see you enough as well. but now we have you this evening. as we learn all these disturbing details about trump's final days in office, does this show the threat to our democracy described in all these books, that it's still a clear and present danger? >> i think it does, i think it shows clearly the continued significance, the continued influence that trump holds over the xwiert of the republican party, right? here is a guy who

write about how angry trump was that general milley publicly apologized for taking part in the lafayette square photo op. here's the quote. milley said that he had to ask for forgiveness because he was a soldier in uniform who did not belong at a political event. i don't expect you to understand, milley had said. it's an ethic for us, a duty. so trump referred to that apology again today in his angry statement about milley. explain why this struck a nerve, susan. >> well, you know, donald trump doesn't do apologies as we all know by now. and he was furious both with general milley and also with defense secretary mark esper because they publicly regretted their participation in that infamous june 1st lafayette square photo op. and so, you know, when then milley issued his apology, trump called him out on it in a meeting in the oval office, the account of which i publish in that piece. and, you know, donald trump just wasn't going to understand, and milley just said, that's the way it is, you know. we're apolitical in the military, and i was in a uniform. >> susan, very extensive and great report

. >> we also remember that general milley walked across lafayette square and peeled off and apologizezed. >> he was in the room with president trump on a lot of high-level decisions, he had a relationship with the white house where he could advise this president and in that moment, that was his assessment. i think it shows how close we were in those final days of the trump presidency to really tipping over at the line. >> and close in on those final days to something else, susan. i know you were working on a book, you had an incredible article in "the atlantic" about president trump wanting to launch an attack in iran and general milley, doing what? >> the two concerns of the final months of the trump administration, also alarming. one was that the fear that the president would try to politicize the military and use them to stop the peaceful transfer of power on his own behalf. that was something after that june 1st lafayette square photo-op became real for the charc chairman. the other concern, i am reporting on this book that i am working on with my husband peter baker that we found

walking in step across lafayette square and all avenue sudden it is apparent that both secretary mark esper and general mark milley seem like their ambushed. i don't know that. but it seems like they're intellectually ambushed. oh, goodness, we should not be here. and it was an opportunity for both of those gentleman to stop, do an about-face and leave. could have done that. but that didn't take place. but what mark milley did close on the heels of that is he very publicly did a mea culpa. he said i take ownership of this. that was a bad decision on my part. nobody put a gun to my head. an i did this and i should not have been there because i crossed a line. so let's consider that, i'm wrong for having done that and i'm going to take ownership. did he that days, if not a week before the secretary of defense did. so good on him for saying i have to make right with this. >> there is a lot to work there. i look forward to continuing this discussion with you. spider, thank you so much. >>> coming up for us, president biden, le be addressing the nation minutes from now about billions of do

i think milley just got swept up in that affair in lafayette square. >> yeah. >> and i think he -- heinto focus, very sharply, for him after that. >> thank you, general. thank you, jamie. your reporting on this book. listen. we didn't know how bad it was. and um, more will come out, i am sure. appreciate it. i'll see you soon. >> sure. >>> so the pentagon has worried about the then-president attempting a coup, right? but the threat to democracy is, still, happening right now with republican-led states openly -- openly -- restricting people's right to vote. here she is. congresswoman sheila jackson lee. she is going to weigh in, right after this. we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick u

and let's remember he had his lafayette square very bad moment. >> which he apologized for. he was i believe in combat fatigues walking with the president in that motley assortment of people from the white house to lafayette square. >> a very bizarre moment. but to hear general milly say this is stunning. >> there were also according to this book daily check-in calls that milly started to do with mark meadows and some others. >> one of it interesting things about that is in the book milly says he was doing it also to keep tabs on trump. as if by talking to pompeo and mark meadows he would get a better sense of what's going on. we should say that pompeo has denied some of this account to the authors. but there is another extraordinary moment where after january 6th and milly is seeing the insurrection, he's now preparing for the inauguration with other law enforcement officials, with the national guard at fort meyer. and he's so worried there is going to be another violent attack by trump supporters that he says to the other senior advisers, quote, here's the deal, guys, thes

himself was criticized for appearing with trump on june 1st after protesters were cleared from lafayette square. he later apologized. the book says milley and other top military leaders discussed the possibility of resigning one after another if it became necessary. these accounts come as the house select committee investigating the causes of january 6th have scheduled its first hearing for later this month. kris van cleave, cbs news, >>> a police standoff in texas has left one officer dead and levelland near lubbock. the suspect was taken into custody before midnight, more than ten hours after the police responded after a neighbor reported the suspect was acting strange and walking around with a gun. the suspect had barricaded himself inside his house before he allegedly opened fire on the officers, killing one. a motive has not been released. >>> and this morning, former seattle seahawks cornerback richard sherman is scheduled to make a court appearance after footage showing he's trying to break into his in-laws house in suburban seattle. this happened wednesday. inside, panicked family membe

criticized for appearing with president trump june 1 last year after protestors were cleared from lafayette square he later apologized. the book says milley and other top military leaders discussed resigning one after another as if it became necessary. these new counts coming as the house select committee investigating as the causes of january 6th scheduled its first hearing for later this month. norah. >> o'donnell: kris van cleave, thank you. tonight, firefighters across the west are on the highest level of alert for wildfires, and it's the earliest that's happened in more than a decade. more than 70 large fires are burning in a dozen states. here's cbs's lilia luciano. >> reporter: the brutal summer continues, plagued by drought, scorched by record heat. the fire danger remains extreme. one burning now in california is near the town of paradise, rebuilt after being completely destroyed nearly three years ago. fortunately, this time, it's moving away from homes. the bootleg fire in oregon, already the nation's largest at more than 225,000 acres, exploded again overnight, sending large plumes vis

. >> reporter: last year general milley publicly apologized after walking across lafayette square with president trump, after “black lives matter” protesters were forcibly cleared from the area, saying it left the impression the military was involved in domestic politics. today reiterating his concerns. >> and our oath is to the constitution, not to any individual at all. and the military did not and will not and should not ever get involved in domestic politics. we don't arbitrate elections. >> reporter: and by his side today, defense secretary lloyd austin, who while in uniform served with milley for decades. >> i'm not guessing at his character. he doesn't have a political bone in his body. >> reporter: and, david, no surprise, donald trump said there was never a coup attempt. >> martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thank you. >>> now to that big test vote in the continuing bipartisan efforts to agree on president biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. not one republican vote for this today but as rachel scott reports tonight that doesn't mean that this won't happen. she's

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but also, cnn's obsession with trump led to boatloads of errors from collision, lafayette square, theon the up, don't shoot, prussia, russia, russia. they walked back more tales than a tuxedo delivery service. that was bad. but their strategy was always a pivot from one trump tale to another. now that he's gone, so does that strategy. meanwhile the same time we saw cnn collapsed, something else was going on. "gutfeld!" was the number one cable news show for the hour. yes! [applause] let's get this, get this fact, at 11:00 we surpassed every cnn show in every hour, every hour in total viewers. think about that. a funky show at 11:00 p.m. is beating all of their shows in prime time. that is not like david beating goliath, it is like david beating goliath and then marrying his sister. save to see them every thanksgiving. this show also toppled some long-running alleged comedy shows on the broadcast network including both jimmy's. not a bad start for what the leg is legacy media branded a certain failure but they wanted us to bail so bad because they are miserable people. the failed comed

owe right about how angry he was after the lafayette square incident? >> yeah, that's right.pologize because he's -- he's -- he goes to the white house in june on a lark. he doesn't have a meeting, and he ends up in one of the most controversial photo ops really in modern american political history. a few days later he has to apologize for that in a graduation speech, and, you know, which is no small thing, especially for president trump. trump confronts him a few days later in the oval office over this and says i can't believe you apologized. it make use look weak. why would you do that? i don't understand. and milley in a meeting again with multiple people in the room tells the president, i wouldn't expect you would understand. >> remarkable. the book is, "frankly, we did win this election: the inside story of how trump lost." michael bender -- michael c. bender. thanks for joining us. try sneaking in a nap. >>> still ahead, making history and amazon's expansion into outer space. "way too early." don't go anywhere. back in a moment. ay too early." don't go anywhere. back in

condolences to the family that's quite a change toth what happened a couple of weeks later in front of lafayette squares a very good example of a personality versus policy does take him if you days before he watches the floyd video he never watches the whole thing but is deeply affected by the video as all of us where we watch that in real time when it happened. president trump is a very visceral person. he learns and absorbs things by watching them more than reading. when we attacked sierra in his first year in office was after he had seen a video of children affected by chemical weapons. but it quickly turns. this is that never report seen in the book. he views the protest in a personal apron people are protesting a murder. with civil rights abuses and internalize it as personal. it is seen his push through some criminal justice reforms. head push the permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities. in the way he vocalizes this to his staff as i did all of these things and black people still hate me. they are never going to vote for me. he merely turns on a dime here and doubles do

and having had the experience of the famous march across lafayette square in the summer of 2020, millieroper and commendable way. >> when you became president trump's national security adviser, were you already concerned that the president -- the then president was unstable? >> well, i didn't think he was fit to be president. unfortunately, that became clear very early. and it became clear as well as i tried to explain in the book that what dominated his thinking was his own political wel well-being. so i was long gone from the white house by the time these events right after the election occurred. sadly, i think it's well established by that point. pushing back on some of general millie's claiming saying, and i'm quoting now, number one i have a discussion about bringing in the military or a coup, which makes sense, because i lost total confidence in him and the way he handled himself on our little walk to the church. i want to take a look back at what happened during that walk and what happened before that little walk to the church as peaceful protesters were forcibly removed. watch t

so i think he more than made up for that mistake that he made surrounding lafayette square. >> dickersoniral michael mullen, thank you so much for being with us, and helping us put all of this in context. we really appreciate it. and we'll be back in a moment. >> dickerson: since the november election, 17states have enacted new laws that tighten rules around casting ballots and running elections. in an effort to keep texas from becoming the 18th, democrats staged a protest, flying to washington, to block republicans from passing a more restrictive voting law. to help us put those challenges into perspective, we're joined by david becker, the director and founder of the center for election innovation and research. welcome. nice to have you here. >> great to be here, john. >> dickerson: there is a lot going on. so give us the basic perspective of what is going on with all of these different voting rights efforts. >> so we're seeing a lot of highly partisan efforts to make it harder for some people to vote. they do appear to be targeted in some ways to ensure that in particular the republic

. ♪ >>> as many of you saw the results of the photograph of me at lafayette square last week, that sparkede of the military in civil society. i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic policy. as a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that i have learned from. >> hi, again, everyone. it is 5:00 in the east. it was a stunning moment for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, having to go on camera like he did there to apologize for his appearance in combat fatigues walking across lafayette square in washington, d.c. alongside the ex-president where protesters had been forcefully removed, all for the ex-president to take a photo with a bible in front of a church. little did we know milley's issues with the former commander in chief would go so much deeper. shocking new revelations obtained by nbc news from the book out next week called "i alone can fix it, donald trump's cat strochk final year," showcase a chairman of the joint chiefs concerned and fearful abou

charlie, when the social media going to be the purveyor of truth and fact-checker on issues like lafayette squarebounties, all these heinous lies against term? the least of which was russia collusion. >> charlie: to me the amazing thing about all this is jen psaki's admission is out in the open that this is what they are doing. we suspected for a long time, now they know they are boasting about it. it came on the very same day the w.h.o. issued a statement saying that actually maybe they reacted too quickly to suppress information on the lab leak theory a year and a half ago. that was one of those theories that had been banned. facebook and google and all these platform silence, vanishing from the internet. "the washington times" or answers about this very early on in the stories disappeared. i look back at that and i think about how many lives might have been saved if they hadn't vanished that information from the internet. >> kayleigh: amazing. really quick, harris, the producers are saying we got to run. any thoughts? steel in the surgeon general floated out his advisory, and as part of that,

. >> reporter: the most public split came last june 1st at lafayette square. square of protesters before trump's photo op. milley walked beside him. >> i should not have been there. my presence in that moment. in environment, created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. >> reporter: it is a perception that he can no longer shake. in hearings on capitol hill, he has verbally sparred with some of those most loyal to trump like matt gaetz over extremism. >> i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our officers of being, quote, woke or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. >> the quote made him a favorite target of the right. >> he's not just a pig. he's stupid. >> he's a total partisan at this point. >> in the final chaotic days of the trump administration, a defense official tells cnn that mark milley and the other joint chiefs had one common goal. get to the date where joe biden was sworn in president and became commander in chief. on that day donald trump was no lon

you know, milley, from really june 1st, which was that infamous lafayette square photo op on was verycerned about what he called nightmare scenarios that could unfold after the election. and one of them, as you said, was the possibility of trump trying to use the military in a coup-like situation, trying to put -- >> oh, no. we just lost susan glasser. >> we just lost susan. let's try to get that back up. this is fascinating what she's written, isn't it? >> let me read another quote from susan's reporting here as we try to get her back up here. she said, in addition to the reporting on iran, she talked about meetings that milley was regularly having with his staff about the former president. milley referred to these meetings with his staff as the land of -- land the plane calls, as in, both engines are out. the landing gear are stuck and we're in an emergency situation. our job is to land this plane. and safely do a peaceful transfer of power on the 20th of january. this speaks to mark milley concerned about things going off the rails. susan glasser back with us to talk specifically a

sympathy to the family, that is quite a change to what happened a couple of weeks later in front of lafayette square. >> guest: that's a good example personality versus policy question. it does take day or two before watches the video part he never action watches the entire thing. he watches at halfway and is deeply affected by the video. all of the world can we watch that real-time what happened, president trump is a t very visceral person. he is sourcing through watching them more than reading. when we attacked sierra on his first year in office is after seen video of children affected by chemical weapons. it quickly turns you are right. this is a never reported thing written in the book. he views the protest as a personal. the people are protesting a murder. people are protesting years of inherent racism and civil rights abuses. trump internalizes as personal. seeing he had pushed through some criminal justice reforms.st push through permanent funding for permanently black universities. what he vocalizes toha his staff as i did all of these things and black people still hate me and they're never

there was an intensity that began after june 1st, after the lafayette square mess and what we saw, butou had this bill barr the attorney general, mark es esper, the defense secretary and mark milley countering what trump wanted throughout the summer which was to use the insurrection act in some form against deploying active military on the streets of the u.s. to try to tamp down protests. they were all three of them very concerned about this. so this went on for a very long time. and then one by one you had esper and barr disappear. esper got fired, barr could not take it anymore and resigned. and i think had told associates that trump seemed different and acted as if he had nothing to lose. the backdrop for that was that plus the fact there was this meeting i reported on in realtime on december 18th in the oval office where former lieutenant general flynn and former national security flynn was presenting this notion to the president in the oval office about possibly using the apparatus of government to rerun an election. so milley had reasons to be afraid and suddenly after milley was

they said tear gas was used in lafayette square to clear the park, we know that's not true.id a capital police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, that's why he died. not true. i don't know what's true in some of these books. if mark mille and what he said potentially about nazis attacking the capital, he's not fit to command our armed services. howie: you're obviously supporting the former president on this. one of the books, there's an incident involving you, a book by mike bender of the wall street journal saying when you joined mike pence's pac, i remember reporting that at the time, trump was furious at his vice president through a crumpled -- threw an article at him, mike pence said it was worked out in advance in terms of hiring you, and threw it back at him. is that true. >> you and i both know it never happened. i'm one of the few people in the world that have been part of the trump organization, part of the trump political movement since january of 2015 and i still run and oversee the president's super pac, make america great again acship. the pre

talks about when the former president was taken under the bunker during the demonstrations in lafayette square was taken out of the bunker, he got upset. how upset? let me read a quote from your book. >>> west wing advisers knew he must be upset when he summoned them first thing in the morning several hours before he emerged from the residence. he boiled over and shouted out to smoke out whoever leaked it. it was the most upset some aides had seen him. whoever did that, they should be charged with treason, trump yelled. they should be executed. >>> okay, why did it upset him so much? >> because two reasons. one is he thought it made him look weak. and the other was the more existential reason here, he could feel his administration slipping away at this point. if you recall, 2020, it's hard to remember. 2020 started out very positive for trump. he had survived not just survived impeachment, first impeachment, but was thriving. his poll numbers were at their highest point. the economy was red hot. he had a direct path to reelection. and just a couple of months later there are several crises that

he apologized last summer for participating in the june 1st infamous lafayette square photo op.d apology. he said soldiers in uniform do not belong at a politicized event like that and we're here for all the american people. he gave other interviews that suggested that the military would follow the constitution, would follow the independence and not be used for political purposes by trump. so we actually had, you know, i think a fair sense of where they were at. what i was shocked in my reporting to find was how worried the people at the very senior levels of our military were that donald trump was pursuing potentially both a military strike on iran that could lead to war and also pressuring the military that they were worried about being used in a coup-type attempt. >> as you said, it was terrifying to hear these details and it sounds like we're going to hear even more of them in the months to come. susan, thank you very much for the preview. >> thank you. >>> more "reliable sources" in just a moment. may look a regu lar movie night. but if you're a kid with diabetes, it's more

thought was so amazing so you revealed his realtime reaction when trump staged the photo op at lafayette squareaking place after floyd o's murder and in quotes you write what the f star ck as sivanka stepped towards her father with the bible and patrolled washington streets with his troops until well past 2:00 a.m. and you reporting this in your book that milly had no idea about this political photo op but clearly, this enraged him. >> this is the same few days in june and what is striking about this hasn't been reported is that milly and attorney general bill barr ended up as a lark and they were -- there was a lull in the action today. that day they were monitoring protest. there wasn't much happening in the afternoon. milly was in his fatigues. he was going to visit with national guard, the national guardsmen stationed around the city that might. barr knew they would push the perimeter out at some point that day he wanted to see what the pr progress was so they decide on heck, let's just go to the white house moment and what happens they both end up in one of the most controversial political

alert ever since the summer when he was, as he told aides, played and used in the walk across lafayette squarethe president was willing to basically cross any line for his political gain, including using the imagery of the military, using this idea of he was the law and order guy, he was the guy with the guns. and so millie was already on guard. and as the president refused to concede a totally fair, in fact one of the most carefully monitored elections in history in america, when he refused to concede, millie was on all alert and becoming increasingly concerned, along with the joint chiefs, army, navy, air force, about the very real possibility that trump or other allies that he knew were whispering in his ear, were going to try to execute a coup, to keep power. and this worry was so serious, alex, that the joint chiefs did something they haven't done in history, which is talk about how they might, one by one, slowly, resign if donald trump tried to give them an order they didn't want to comply with, and which they thought was dangerous. they feared, really, a wag the dog moment or an effort

blowback, concerns of what happened in the summer and criticism the guard had taken over actions at lafayette square or other protests over the summer? what was going on in terms of why this metric took so long to respond to? maj. gen. walker: a combination of both. it was two factors. i had the benefit of having the secretary of the army located with me during the summer. he was next to me during that entire week, the first week of june. i was in constant communication with him. i had his phone number and we communicated regularly. i did not have that benefit for january 6. so there was some concern. i don't think it was so much what the district of columbia national guard did for joan, i think it was more -- did for june, i think it was more, the word i kept hearing was the optics of it. there was concerned it could inflame protesters. so the uniformed presence of guardsmen, u.s. army, u.s. air force uniforms, could inflame the protesters. that was a thought by army leaders. senator king: and the optics in this context as become a pejorative term, but they were worried about the visuals of armed t

milley was pretty disturbed by what happened at the lafayette square march when the president came acrossold a bible up, and i think from that moment on he was radicalized in effect against what he saw as the politicization of the military. >>, you know, the daily beast is reporting on an excerpt from carol and phil's book. this one details a conversation between joint chiefs chairman mark milley and congresswoman liz cheney after the january 6th attack on the capitol. cheney reportedly ripped into trump loyalist, congressman jim jordan saying, quote, that f'ing jim jordan that son of a b, while these maniacs are going through the place i'm standing in the aisle and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle, let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him, get away from me. you f'ing did this. and yamiche, there is an argument that many believe that congressmen like jim jordan and other loyalists are those who inspired the insurrection on january 6th. >> the more we learn about january 6th, the more rerealize just how close american democracy came to being brought to its

comb with his name on it and there i think there are over 40 towns or cities named after lafayette street squares blah. so he became i think at that point in american icon and america recognized this amazing role that he played up in every nation. the the sailors are the different songs for different tasks. so there are songs to to put the sales songs to arrive songs to start a strings for day pictures and things for arrivals. and so we choose between hundreds which is five which was the one we preferred. and we had a lot of pleasure to sing it we sing it when we are. running out in parties, you know because the advantage of sailors sound is you can sing it very loud. you can you're yelling, you know, and if you think not very well, it's okay. it's okay. up here how did you find yourself you're doing this? oh, i i visited the ship once and they told well, we are looking for a crew and for me that was a kind of dream, you know kids dream because i grow up in. in sit in brittany just bought the sea which is called samalu and this is a privacy of france. so it's just a stone city with one parts and

milley who had already publicly apologized at that point for walking with the president through lafayette squarefter black lives matter protesters were forcibly removed from the area is quoted telling aides, he feared the equivalent of brown shirts in the streets after a briefing about a pro-trump rally protesting the election. the book describes how milley started informal meetings with other military leaders about how they would refuse to follow any orders that trump issued they saw as illegal, robin, very disturbing. >> very disturbing, indeed. martha, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the nba finals, down to the best of three series after the bucks' big win tying the series 2-2. will reeve was there in milwaukee. amy, pay attention. here are the highlights coming up with will. good morning, will. >> reporter: good morning, robin. i'm in the spot where it happened. 1:16 left in the fourth quarter. devin booker of the suns has the ball, down two. giannis antetokounmpo standing here 15 feet away from the rim. booker throws an alley-oop to deandre ayton. giannis meets the ball at the rim

, and last year when the riots occurred when it was happening across the country, members of lafayette square, i was holding in the riot shield and was they are, and deployed across the city to try to defend businesses from being looted, burned, and think about what has happened since then? since then criminals the appeal will further embolden, they feel like they more or less got away with it, charges are dropped, bail reform means that people are arrested and released, the police have been told they will be defended, city government is entirely compute scum of the mayor is saying we will pay overtime over the last year paying lip service which disparages her police officers on the ground. in addition to that, you have family breakdown, gang violence on the rise, and we are just now paying attention, because it is a nice neighborhood and was the national ballpark. this is the reality for too many citizens and residents of d.c. who don't live in those nicer areas where people who are in the news happened to being nearby. so it's popping up, but all a result of the fact that we demoralize poli

of the stories out there, one of the defining days of the trump administration was june 1st, lafayette squares the country. you report that he told general milly that he wanted to use the military to crackdown on them, say they should shoot the protesters. tell us more about that moment and what it means in terms of bigger picture, how trump was using the leverage of government and the united states military to advantage him politically, keep a hold on power. >> this is one of several examples of people talking to me because they wanted to explain how dangerous they thought trump was behind the scenes, and just for -- his advisers wanted to put national guards on troops to take care of protests. these are folks trained to handle protests. the people that trump wanted to put on the streets are uniform military. the difference is those people are trained to kill and take land. it would have been a very dangerous situation. it is one of the most striking scenes. general milley, top general in the country, in the oval office with dozens of aides around him pointing to the portrait of abraham linc

photo op where he was sort of swept up, according to his account, into the president crossing lafayette squareer protesters had been cleared, he's wearing a military uniform and that he recognized just how problematic that image was in terms of protecting the military standing and sending a message that, you know, the country was being governed appropriately and what is the appropriate role of the military there. explain the impact of an image like that and how it connects with all of the rest of what we're learning now, because milley is clearly talking to all of these authors because he wants to set the record straight. >> yeah. it took milley a day or two then he realized and came out and apologized. look, what's frightening as these books come out is how close we were, and had there been somebody else different in milley's seat or somebody else different in brad raffensperger's seat -- obviously i'm going to a different place now, but how with four or five individuals in places of power influence how this coup would have and could have taken place. that's the frightening thing we were a fe

reporting we learned that general milley decides, after june 1st in that brutal clearing of lafayette squarefor the president, he's never going to let that happen again, he's not going to be played as he tells his aides. the military will not be deployed on his watch for political gain. but he becomes concerned there's a plot afoot, a coup in the works. he gets a call from friends, military aids, h.r. mcmaster, watch it here's something going on, here are the people you need to be careful about. he begins meeting with the joint chiefs, army, navy, air force to talk about what they will do to block dump if he takes a step to use the military to keep and maintain his grasp on power. they decide, basically, as phil and i learned, on a reverse saturday night massacre if anyone is familiar with that moment from nixon's presidency. they start talking about how they will resign one by one basically to stop the president in his tracks if he does something insane. >> extraordinary. so phil, cover of your book has the picture of donald trump pulling off his mask upon his return from walter reed medica

. >> imagine if i would have said we're censoring the lies about lafayette square that president trumpt amendment. you're allowed to say what you want. i would have never said that from the podium. i just tried to make sure i said everything accurately. i guarantee you there are a few people at the doj and social media who are very unhappy with the things that were said at that podium. lawrence: you're exactly right. and they actually put it in their advisory as well, voices that are trusted. the government gets to decide who are the trusted voices, not the american public. it is a slippery slope. kayleigh, thank you so much, and we'll be watching you the entire time. we'll finally get pete there. >> one quick correction, pete, it is not tampa bay, it is champa bay. you're welcome. pete: that's true. [laughter] pete: i love it. i can't wait to get there. hold down the fort. and if you want to watch all the speeches this morning, fox nation's streaming all of them from the turning point summit today through tuesday. you get a free month, as lawrence said, code sas, and if you're a vet,

located in the middle of pacific heights on top of a hill, lafayette park offers a great square a ofceful beauty. large trees border greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football, frisbee, and picnics. it is very much a couple's part and there are a multitude of experiences you can have together. bring your dog and watch the mean go with the community or just picnic at one of the many tables and enjoy all of the park has to offer. many couples find this is the perfect place to put down a blanket and soak up the sun. it is a majestic place you can share with someone you cherish. it is located along the 1 and 10 buses and is accessed from the 47 and 90 buses. it is ada accessible. for more information about reserving one of these locations, call 831-5500. this number is best for special events, weddings, picnics, and the county fair building. for any athletic fields and neighborhood parks, 831-5510. you can also write us. or walking in and say hello at old lock cabin, golden gate park. and of course you ca

this created an additional two miles of open space, about 17 acres, an area larger than lafayette park or alamo square. each month an average of 126,000 people walk, bike, skate and roll down here along the beach. this past january saw the largest gathering of users, breaking records on three day, including the largest single day of over 11600 people accessing the road on m.l.k.s jr. day. if no sabrinasing taken, after 125 days after the emergency order is lifted, vehicle traffic would be returned to the roadway. more than ever, we have seen the importance of parks and open spaces during this pandemic. they have proud us physical and mental health respite for all san franciscans to enjoy, including the current use of the great highway. before delving further, i'd like to take this opportunity to quickly introduce you to the recreation and park departments. we operate 4,000 acres including land outside the city boundaries. our amenities freezing raining pools and rec centers to sports fields, courts, community gardens, from natural areas of trails and endangered species habitat to many other opportunit

this created an additional two miles of open space, about 17 acres, an area larger than lafayette park or alamo square. each month an average of 126,000 people walk, bike, skate and roll down here along the beach. this past january saw the largest gathering of users, breaking records on three day, including the largest single day of over 11600 people accessing the road on m.l.k.s jr. day. if no sabrinasing taken, after 125 days after the emergency order is lifted, vehicle traffic would be returned to the roadway. more than ever, we have seen the importance of parks and open spaces during this pandemic. they have proud us physical and mental health respite for all san franciscans to enjoy, including the current use of the great highway. before delving further, i'd like to take this opportunity to quickly introduce you to the recreation and park departments. we operate 4,000 acres including land outside the city boundaries. our amenities freezing raining pools and rec centers to sports fields, courts, community gardens, from natural areas of trails and endangered species habitat to many other opportunit